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cracking onto

cracking onto is the present participle and gerund of crack onto.

Meaning of crack onto

Verb

crack onto (third-person singular simple present cracks onto, present participle cracking onto, simple past and past participle cracked onto)

  1. (Australia, UK, slang, transitive) To flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.
    Synonyms:
    chat up, hit on

Questions about cracking onto

What is cracking onto the present participle and gerund of?
Cracking onto is the present participle and gerund of crack onto.

Words near cracking onto in the dictionary

  1. cracking down
  2. cracking hardy
  3. cracking off
  4. cracking on
  5. cracking one off
  6. cracking onto
  7. cracking open
  8. cracking out
  9. cracking someone's egg
  10. cracking the flags
  11. cracking through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cracking onto (page history and authors); crack onto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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